“A lot of them are calling me a whore,” Myers said of anonymous. Amy and her father said the comments from conservative websites alarmed them most. Some commenters threatened to publish her home address. Others threatened violence. Some threatened rape.

It doesn’t matter that Bachmann won’t debate her. Nor are the facts pointed to by Myers important. It doesn’t matter that Bachmann, the Tea Party’s alleged constitutional expert is wrong about the constitution and that a 16-year-old high school student is right. What matters is that you can’t criticize the Tea Party.

Judging from what I regularly read on far right blogs I'm not particularly surprised by this.In my none-expert opinion she doesn't really have anything to fear from assholes on the Internet (and this is going to sound very cynical) for the simple fact she's white and probably non-Muslim.

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Through me the way to the city of woe, Through me the way to everlasting pain, Through me the way among the lost.Justice moved my maker on high.Divine power made me, Wisdom supreme, and Primal love.Before me nothing was but things eternal, and eternal I endure.Abandon all hope, you who enter here.Dante

Over at CG, there's at least one loony tune saying that she deserves it.

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" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake, and they live in a state of constant, total amazement."

Can anybody find the article in question on cnn.com? I'd like to take a peek at the comments. I suspect they're not that startling relative to other vitriol in the blogosphere. I do like the tactic though - get a 16 year old girl to be the mouth piece for an incendiary diatribe, so people who retaliate in the expected way will look like total jerkwads.

Does that excuse said jerkwads? I mean, even IF she was put up to this (God knows nobody has a political thought before age 30), does that mean their actions were excusable, therefore this is all her own fault?

Because if it's suddenly okay to do shit like this to people who disagree with you, I'm going to make life a living hell for the teabagger across the road, and sleep like a baby.

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" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Does that excuse said jerkwads? I mean, even IF she was put up to this (God knows nobody has a political thought before age 30), does that mean their actions were excusable, therefore this is all her own fault?

Because if it's suddenly okay to do shit like this to people who disagree with you, I'm going to make life a living hell for the teabagger across the road, and sleep like a baby.

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NO FAIR YOU'VE GOT A HEAD START

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If someone does the “Fine, you’re right, I’m clearly a terrible person, I’m Satan, I’m the worst person alive, I should just die” thing in response to criticism of their harmful behavior, they are trying to manipulate people and flip the situation around so that they look like a victim.

As a neuroscientist I have to disagree with the perception that anyone is doing mathematical modeling of cognitive intelligence, yet; intelligence as an economist defines it, yes, but economists are worlds away from actual cognition.

Although it is outside the purview of this organization to offer personal advice, we can say -- without assuming any liability -- that previous experience indicates (and recent market studies corroborate) that given the present condition of the marketplace, continuing with your present course of action is likely to result in substantial in

Does that excuse said jerkwads? I mean, even IF she was put up to this (God knows nobody has a political thought before age 30), does that mean their actions were excusable, therefore this is all her own fault?

Because if it's suddenly okay to do shit like this to people who disagree with you, I'm going to make life a living hell for the teabagger across the road, and sleep like a baby.

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WHOOOOOOO!!!! IT'S A LONG WAY DOWN BUT WE'RE GOING SO FAST!

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“I’m guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk,” Charles Wick said. “It was very complicated.”

Can anybody find the article in question on cnn.com? I'd like to take a peek at the comments. I suspect they're not that startling relative to other vitriol in the blogosphere. I do like the tactic though - get a 16 year old girl to be the mouth piece for an incendiary diatribe, so people who retaliate in the expected way will look like total jerkwads.

"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake, and they live in a state of constant, total amazement."

Does that excuse said jerkwads? I mean, even IF she was put up to this (God knows nobody has a political thought before age 30), does that mean their actions were excusable, therefore this is all her own fault?

Because if it's suddenly okay to do shit like this to people who disagree with you, I'm going to make life a living hell for the teabagger across the road, and sleep like a baby.

RACE

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BOTTOM

WHOOOOOOO!!!! IT'S A LONG WAY DOWN BUT WE'RE GOING SO FAST!

It's easy, really. We just assume that this was all engineered by some shadowy lefty group, and this poor girl was the bait.

This has the added benefit of reminding people to keep their mouths shut & get back to work.

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" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Who's excusing anybody? I'm just surprised that people being assholes on the internet is even news. Internet comments are cheap and people say the most vile shit possible when they're anonymous... But if the person they're responding to is 16, you have the opportunity to GET OUTRAGED AND MAN THE HARPOONS. If being 16 really shields you from assholes, then we should all being posting as 16 year old girls.